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Mastering

Mastering is an important part of the recording process. Technically, I consider to be AFTER the recording process. Mastering is kind of like the guys who have to go in pick up all the bodies at the end of the movie Commando. The killing is done and now it’s time to wrap up the movie. That’s kind of what audio mastering is. I’ll talk about mastering software, my experiences with mastering engineers, etc.

It’s staggering to me how many people WANT to call mastering “voodoo”. They really want to believe that there are a bunch of little gnomes inside some box about to sacrifice a virgin to get their tune to sound awesome. As usual, that kind of thinking holds a person back.